File:1626 Medieval horse harness pendant (FindID 177938).jpg

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1626 Medieval horse harness pendant.JPG
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2007-04-18 16:38:38
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1626 Medieval horse harness pendant.JPG
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English: Copper alloy horse harness pendant length 42mm, width 24mm, thickness 5mm, weight 8.68g. Shield shaped, the design has been split in two, read enamel decorates the top half and gold on the lower half. There are two six pointed stars in the top half, if there was any device in the lower half this has been removed by corrosion, but there look like there may have been an animal rampant. A loop in the centre of the top edge is missing its upper half. The reverse is plain.

Heraldic description: Giles, two stars or Per fess, or possibly and animal rampant.

This artefact is heavily corroded leaving a heavily pitted surface on the reverse and almost all of the lower section on the obverse. The artefact was originally gilt but most of this is missing.

This artefact dates to the 14th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) South Gloucestershire
Date between 1300 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 177938
Old ref: GLO-C8E0C3
Filename: 1626 Medieval horse harness pendant.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/135702
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/135702/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/177938
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